There is some fascination to solve problems by writing as little code as possible. And even yesterday I visited the Rails Usergroup Hamburg where we played Ruby Golf.

It's a great way to learn some not so common constructs of the language of your choice. Even if some of them don't even try to be very expressive or elegant. But there's always something you can learn from, right?

I use Point to manage the DNS of all my domains. Actually I think it's one of the best tools out there. All you've to do is to register the dnsX.pointhq.com nameservers at your domain provider and start managing your DNS settings from the easy to use Point interface.

Started with git's commandline, tried some other tools like git-sh for a while, I've returned to the core cli. Not because it is so awesome, but git has become just another tool for the shell. Which is a good thing!

Nevertheless I use a lot of aliases. So here are some I've created and considered as useful extensions to standard aliases like git s. Simply put them in the [alias] section of your ~/.gitconfig. By the way, I've tried not to use aliases in the examples.